דָּרַךְ dârak — to tread
Translated in the KJV as archer, bend, come, draw, go, guide, lead, thresh, tread, walk.
a primitive root; to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string a bow (by treading on it in bending).
dârak in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 17Perfect (qatal) 15Participle (active) 15Participle (passive) 2Wayyiqtol 1
I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the Lord.
Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Imperative 2Wayyiqtol 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Participle (active) 1
Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.
The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›